To inspect or investigate by dissection.
To scrutinize down to the most minute detail.
To study an animal's anatomy by cutting it apart; to perform a necropsy or an autopsy.
To analyze an idea in detail by separating it into its parts.
To separate muscles, organs, and so on without cutting into them or disrupting their architecture.
Of an infection or foreign material, following the fascia separating muscles or other organs.
To study a plant or other organism's anatomy similarly.